If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad; if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
- John F. Kennedy

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Rummy is Leaving...Finally

Breaking news just now on CNN is that Rumsfeld is stepping down. None too soon and about 6 years too late but better than continuing on. I just wonder what knothole Bush will try and put in his place.

UPDATE: I guess I got too excited and didn't read far enough the new guy in the barrel is Robert Gates formerly of the CIA.

Update 2: this from KOS. Shades of Negroponte look what the cat has coughed up. Bush looks to another corrupt Iran/Contra hack to make nice in Iraq. What a loser.

Robert M. Gates was the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director for intelligence (DDI) from 1982 to 1986. He was confirmed as the CIA's deputy director of central intelligence (DDCI) in April of 1986 and became acting director of central intelligence in December of that same year. Owing to his senior status in the CIA, Gates was close to many figures who played significant roles in the Iran/contra affair and was in a position to have known of their activities.